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M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center

By |2024-10-09T09:09:09-04:00October 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M106? A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus, as shown in the featured image taken from the Kuwaiti desert. The core of M106 glows brightly in radio [...]

The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble

By |2024-07-15T09:09:08-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista, based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420 million light-years distant toward the northern [...]

CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy

By |2024-05-21T09:09:14-04:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Can a gas cloud eat a galaxy? It's not even close. The "claw" of this odd looking "creature" in the featured photo is a gas cloud known as a cometary globule. This globule, however, has ruptured. Cometary globules are typically characterized by dusty heads and elongated tails. These features cause [...]

The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole

By |2024-05-09T09:09:42-04:00May 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo galaxy cluster about 55 million light-years away, M87 is rendered in blue hues in this [...]

The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb

By |2024-04-15T09:09:06-04:00April 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Something strange happened to this galaxy, but what? Known as the Cigar Galaxy and cataloged as M82, red glowing gas and dust are being cast out from the center. Although this starburst galaxy was surely stirred up by a recent pass near its neighbor, large spiral galaxy M81, this doesn't [...]

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